Units of Study in Reading, 2023, Grade K Bundle with Trade Pack

By Lucy Calkins, Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Columbia University

The Units of Study in Reading for Kindergarten will help you introduce your students not only to reading workshop, but also to school.

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ISBN 978-0-325-13662-2 / 0-325-13662-9 / SKU E13662
2023 / Bundle
Curricular Resource Grade Level: Kindergarten

Topics: Curricular Resources, Early Childhood Education, Language Arts, Reading

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Full Description

The Units of Study in Reading series has been designed to provide teachers with a curriculum framework to lean on and to adapt, with embedded professional development to help deepen knowledge of beginning reading and of methods for teaching reading.

What makes the Units of Study particularly magical is the way that one day’s teaching links to the next. Skills and concepts introduced in one unit are revisited and strengthened, both within a grade level and across grade levels.

About the new Units of Study for Teaching Reading, Grade K

The Units of Study in Reading for Kindergarten are designed to help you introduce your students not only to the reading workshop but also to school.

In Unit 1, We Are Readers, your task will be to get your kids excited about reading and to help them feel comfortable in the classroom. Students will work to develop essential pre-reading skills, and they’ll practice these skills both on their own and with their peers. In Unit 2, Sharing Reading, you’ll channel your students to pay attention to the words in books. Students will learn to read text from left to right, one word after another, with one-to-one correspondence. They’ll also draw on their growing knowledge of high-frequency words and of the alphabetic code to read familiar patterned books. In Unit 3, Super Powers: Reading with Phonics and Sight Word Power, you’ll rally kids to do the hard work of decoding. They will learn to use new superpowers: “slider power”—the ability to slide through the sounds of words and blend them back together, “think power” to notice and wonder about the content of what they are reading, and “fix-it power,” which helps kids look closely at a challenging word and check to make sure it makes sense. Throughout Unit 4, Boosting Reading Power, students will continue to build on the superpowers they attained in the first three units. You’ll help give these powers a “turbo boost” to help young readers tackle texts with greater complexity. Finally, in Unit 5, Becoming Avid Readers, you’ll build upon and celebrate the journey youngsters have taken since the start of the year. Students will leave kindergarten with a love of reading that is strong enough to propel them to carry books on picnics and visits to grandparents through the summer months and straight into the start of first grade.

Grade K Unit Titles

We Are Readers (Unit 1)
Shared Reading (Unit 2)
Super Powers: Reading with Phonics and Sight Word Power (Unit 3)
Boosting Reading Power (Unit 4)
Becoming Avid Readers (Unit 5)

About the Series

The new primary Units of Study in Reading and Writing represent wholesale changes. The best of all that was offered in the previous editions has been streamlined, clarified, and kept, but the new units are new indeed. Lucy Calkins and the coauthors worked diligently to incorporate all their latest thinking and learning into the new units including:

research on the science of reading;
new comprehension research;
language research, including support for foundational skills such as grammar;
new research on writing, including writing from sources;
and research on knowledge generation.

The Units of Study address the full range of domains emphasized by the reading research community to provide a truly research-based approach that brings the best of what we know into classrooms in ways that will spark joy and provide teachers with the tools they need to teach responsively. The new Units of Study will do more to empower, revitalize, and strengthen teachers than ever before—and that will build even stronger communities of learning to set all kids on trajectories of growth.

For more information about the Units of Study for Teaching Reading, visit UnitsofStudy.com/K-2Reading.

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Components

Units of Study in Reading

There are five Units of Study in Reading for each grade level, and each unit represents four to six weeks of teaching. The units are the heart of the series. In each unit of study, teachers will learn a rich repertoire of ways to provide focused and explicit instruction on a specific set of skills and strategies.

Additional Resources Included

In addition to the units themselves, the resources in this bundle include:

Supporting All Readers: High-Leverage Small Groups and Conferences, K–2

This book is an invaluable resource for meeting the needs of a range of learners in the classroom. It includes a collection of small groups, conferences, and tools teachers can draw on for work-time teaching. Teachers also draw on this book often to meet the needs of students through one-on-one and small-group reading interventions.

A Guide to the Reading Workshop, K–2

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the Units of Study in Reading series. It is an essential manual that helps teachers develop an understanding of the essentials of reading instruction and reading development across K–2. Teachers also learn about how reading workshop fits into the school day, the architecture and principles that inform minilessons, ways to lead powerful work time instruction, how to use data to inform instruction that ensures access for all students, and more.

Let’s Gather: Reading to and with Your Kindergarteners (digital lessons only included in Online Resources)

These booksprovide support for state-of the-art read-aloud sessions in which you will learn ways to develop students’ reading comprehension across a learning progression. Also available in a classroom bundle that includes a print copy of the lesson book along with companion trade books.

Access to Online Resources

Online resources include digital access to all the printed books in the core units of study set (Units, Guide, etc.), along with printable versions of charts, simple decodable texts, and assessment tools. Online Resources also include digital access to the Let’s Gather read-aloud and shared reading guide. There are additional teaching tools, including extensions to support phonological awareness, grammar, and vocabulary; scores of instructional videos for teaching phonological awareness and high-frequency words; student tools such as bookmarks and alphabet charts; and supports for Spanish-speaking learners.

Anchor Chart Sticky Notes

The Anchor Chart Sticky Notes feature each day’s teaching point help teachers create and evolve anchor charts across the units.

Unit Readers

One complete set of the simple printable Unit Readers from the online resources is included for teacher reference.

Units of Study in Reading Trade Book Pack

This bundle includes the following trade books that teachers use as demonstration texts to teach the Units of Study in Reading, Grade K. A representative sampling of these texts includes:

A Big Mooncake for Little Star by Grace Lin
Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys, and Their Monkey Business by Esphyr Slobodkina
Max and the Tag-Along Moon by Floyd Cooper
Packs: Strength in Numbers by Hannah Salyer
Laxmi's Mooch by Shelly Anand

Coming: Spanish-language Trade Book Packs.

Additional Resources Not Included

Jump Rope Readers

The Jump Rope Readers decodable series books are available for separate purchase—see the Jump Rope Readers Classroom Bundle, Set A. These highly engaging decodable books gradually and systematically introduce beginning readers to new letter-sound correspondences and high-frequency words to help beginning readers develop their foundational word recognition skills. Along the way, the books also introduce memorable characters, exciting adventures, and the foundational elements of literary fiction.

Premium Digital Content—Annual Subscriptions

The minilesson videos in the Premium DigitalSubscriptions for grades K–2 are designed to serve as valuable exemplars for effective, concise, and engaging minilessons, exemplars that can help teachers lift the level of their teaching. Each minilesson is modeled by a staff developer and can serve as powerful professional learning for individual teachers and for teams as they plan instruction. Teachers may also use the videos in settings where remote teaching is needed.

Companion Resources

Jump Rope Readers Classroom Bundle (Boxes 1 and 2), Set A: Fiction (Gr K/1)— Recommended to provide opportunities for practice of the phonics skills students are learning.
TCRWP Classroom Library, Kindergarten—Recommended to support kids’ independent reading during workshop work time.
Let’s Gather: Reading to and with Your Kindergarteners—Classroom bundle that includes lesson book and companion trade books—Recommended additional purchase to support read-aloud and shared reading (included in digital format in the Online Resources of the core Units set).